LACKINGTON'S

speculative prose

An Interview with Nin Harris

We’re celebrating the launch of Issue 19 by talking to our authors about what makes “Voyages” — and stories. Lackington’s: The lives of the families in “A Cream-Broker’s Courtship” revolve … Continue reading

May 7, 2019

An Interview with Alexandra Munck

We’re celebrating the launch of Issue 19 by talking to our authors about what makes “Voyages” — and stories. Lackington’s: A sestina is a type of poem with very specific … Continue reading

April 30, 2019

Issue 18 Table of Contents

Enchantment is nigh! We’ve finally put together a “Magics” issue that nods to more than mere sorcery. Not surprisingly, witchcraft creeps into several Issue 18 tales, and we’ve also included … Continue reading

March 14, 2019

Issue 18 Foreword

Confession: I’m not the biggest fan of magic. Stage magicians are pure cheese and sorcery-loaded fiction can lack tension. The craftiest magic systems, for all of their internal rules and … Continue reading

March 14, 2019

When the Vine Came, by S.R. Mandel

The narrator shook his long grey curls. “When I lost my eyes, my sight became clearer,” he said. “I’ll tell you the real story. Listen!”: The planet was Boeotia; the … Continue reading

March 14, 2019

Prima Fuit, Finis Erit, by Julia August

First Cynthia caught me with her fulminating eyes. O me miserum! Captive and collared, a fool never before touched. Now she, trailing charred Coan silk, her curls breathing cold perfume, … Continue reading

March 14, 2019

The Wytch-Byrd of the Nabryd-Keind, by Farah Rose Smith

gold in my eyes red on my mouth am I glamour or did I eat you for treasure   Claudia Marr, head swinging up in pride from the cover of … Continue reading

March 14, 2019

Collar for Captain Cormorant, by Rekha Valliappan

I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding … how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing…                                     — Hopkins, ‘The Windhover” A colony … Continue reading

March 14, 2019

Song of the Oliphant, by KT Bryski

Thunder’s shaking the whole pub pretty good. Fat raindrops lash the windows so we can’t see out. Not that there’s anything to see. The stores across the road lost power … Continue reading

March 14, 2019

Love Letters from Velveteen, by M. Raoulee

[The story of “Velveteen” appears as one of the few surviving narratives of the Late Orb Age. The author’s references to “magic” represent an uncharacteristic literary device for an era … Continue reading

March 14, 2019